Happy Easter!

Home sweet home, chicken nuggets

Our trip home

a chicken in a barn being petted

How to start homesteading: 6 simple starting points

Chances are if you ask twenty homesteading families what the parameters are to be termed “homesteading” you get twenty slightly different answers. You need to develop your own answer to this. To me, homesteading is to make your home as self-sustaining as you choose, incorporating your land and your skills to be less reliant on others and stores. This will look different between you and I or myself and my friends. That’s OK. There is no “right” answer although there might be a lot of “wrong” ones. Your “right” answer is what works for you at any given time.

rooster and hen in the background, title of "Choosing the Right Breed of Chickens" in front

Choosing the Right Breed Of Chickens

We’re going to bite the bullet this year and not just restock our layers but buy some meat chickens to … More

Three Things I have learned in the First Six Months of “Really” Homesteading

Every single time you have a day planned out so you can accomplish tons, something is going to come up that takes immediate precedence and you will work on that for the majority of your time and energy and only accomplish a bare minimum of your other plan.

twelve year old boy tromping up an unplowed hill

Our first year of homesteading – end of winter

Our first year to try to be more sustainable and actually lay claim to the title homesteading and this Coronacation … More